Readers of this guide will gain a firm grasp of the internal structure and design philosophy of the Sun OS 5.x Operating System known as the Solaris 2.x. It"s the only reference on Sun"s unique threads model available to the public, and it comes complete with all necessary code samples on an accompanying disk. Coverage encompasses every major sybsystem of the Solaris 2.x operating system, as well as non operating systems topics such as networking. Emphasis on practice instead of theory provides real-world guidance on basic kernel operation, thread architecture, multi-processor design, implementation of virtual memory, paging and swapping, process management, file management, and transport independent network access.